METRO EAST EDUCATION DISTRICT
COMMON PAPERS
HISTORY PAPER 1
GRADE 12
3 HOURS
SEPTEMBER 2015
QUESTION PAPER
INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION
Read the following instructions carefully before answering the questions:
1.
This question paper consists of TWO Sections :
SECTION A: SOURCE-BASED QUESTIONS
1. Cold War: Origins of the Cold War
2. Independent Africa: Case Study: Angola
3. Civil Society Protest in the USA from the 1950s to the 1970s: The Civil Rights
Movement
SECTION B: ESSAY QUESTIONS
4. Extension of the Cold War – Case Study: Vietnam
5. Independent Africa: Comparative Study: Congo and Tanzania
6. Civil Society Protest in the USA from the 1950s to the 1970s: The Black Power
Movement
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A candidate needs to answer THREE questions as follows:
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SECTION A consists of THREE (3) source-based questions. Candidates need to
answer AT LEAST ONE SOURCE-BASED question which counts 50 marks.
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SECTION B consists of THREE (3) essay questions. Candidates need to answer
AT LEAST ONE ESSAY question which counts 50 marks.
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The THIRD question can be either a source-based question or an essay question.
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The total mark for the paper is 150
Learners may answer two questions on the same topic.
When candidates answer questions, they are required to demonstrate application of
knowledge, skills and insight.
5.
Rewriting of the sources as answers will be to the disadvantage of candidates.
6.
Write neatly and legibly.
SECTION A: SOURCE-BASED QUESTIONS
Answer at least ONE question, but not more than TWO questions, from this section. Source
material to be used to answer these questions is contained in the ADDENDUM.
QUESTION 1:
HOW DID THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BERLIN WALL BY THE
GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC INTENSIFY COLD WAR
TENSIONS IN THE 1960s?
Study Sources 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D and answer the questions that follow.
1.1
Study Source 1A
1.1.1
Using the information in the source and your own knowledge,
explain why you think East Berliners decided to settle in the West? (2 x 2) (4)
1.1.3
According to the source, why did the German Democratic
Government Council announce the implementation of border
controls as of 12 August 1961?
(2 x 1) (2)
Comment on whether you think the German Democratic
Government was justified in ordering the closure of the
border.
(2 x 2) (4)
Read Source 1B
1.2.1
Why do you think the police and soldiers were present at the
construction of the Berlin Wall?
(1 x 2) (2)
1.2.2
Explain the message being conveyed in the photograph.
(2 x 2) (4)
1.2.3
Explain the impact of the construction of the Berlin Wall on
relations between the USA and the Soviet Union.
(1 x 2) (2)
Study the information in the photograph and explain how
the reputation of the German Democratic Republic was affected
by the construction of the Berlin Wall.
(2 x 2) (4)
1.2.4
1.3
(1 x 1) (1)
1.1.2
1.1.4
1.2
How many Germans left the German Democratic Republic and
East Berlin between 1949 and 1961?
Refer to Source 1C
1.3.1
Which Soviet leader, according to the source, ordered the
construction of the Berlin Wall?
(1 x 1) (1)
Why would you regard Ulbricht as a pawn of the Soviet
Union?
(1 x 2) (2)
1.3.3
Explain why Ulbricht planned to closed the border in Berlin.
(1 x 2) (2)
1.3.4
Comment on why Ulbricht needed the support of the Soviet army
to close the border in Berlin?
(2 x 2) (4)
1.3.2
1.4
Study Source 1D
1.4.1
1.4.2
1.4.3
1.5
Explain ONE of the following terms in your own words:
Communism or Democracy
(1 x 2) (2)
Why do you think President Kennedy visited Berlin on
26 June 1963?
(2 x 2) (4)
Explain why this source can be regarded as biased?
(2 x 2) (4)
Using the information in the relevant sources and your own knowledge,
write a paragraph of about EIGHT lines (about 80 words) explaining
how the construction of the Berlin Wall intensified the Cold War tensions
in the 1960s.
(8)
[50]
QUESTION 2:
HOW DID FOREIGN INTERVENTION HEIGHTEN COLD WAR TENSIONS
IN ANGOLA BETWEEN 1974 AND 1976?
Study Sources 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D and answer the questions that follow.
2.1
Refer to Source 2A
2.1.1
Identify the FOUR countries (outside Africa) that were involved
in Angola before and after independence.
(4 x 1) (4)
2.1.2
Define the term superpowers in the context of the Cold War
in Angola.
2.1.3
Explain why the following countries became involved in
Angola after 1975:
(a) United States of America
(b) South Africa
2.2
(1 x 2) (2)
(1 x 2) (2)
Read Source 2B
2.2.1
2.2.2
2.2.3
2.3
(1 x 2) (2)
Why, according to the source, did Fidel Castro decide to
send troops to Angola?
(2 x 1) (2)
Explain why the US government 'preferred to downplay its
connection with the apartheid regime'.
(1 x 2) (2)
Why, according to the source, did the US Congress reject
the president's request for additional money to fund the
operation in Angola?
(3 x 1) (3)
Use Source 2C
2.3.1
2.3.2
Explain why China was prepared to assist with the formation
of a coalition government in Angola.
(2 x 2) (4)
Why, according to the I Wor Kuen, was the Soviet Union
involved in Angola?
(3 x 1) (3)
2.3.3
What was the main reason for the United States of America's
involvement in Angola?
(1 x 2) (2)
2.3.4
Explain to what extent a historian would consider the
information in this source useful when researching the
motives for the superpowers' intervention in Angola.
(2 x 2) (4)
2.4
Consult Source 2D
2.4.1
2.4.2
2.5
2.6
Explain the messages that the cartoon conveys regarding
the Soviet Union's involvement in Angola.
Use the visual clues in the source to support your answer.
(2 x 2) (4)
Comment on the title of the cartoon, 'Knuckle-rapping',
in the context of how the United States of America responded
to the Soviet Union in Angola.
(2 x 2) (4)
Study Sources 2C and 2D. Explain in what ways the evidence in
Source 2D contradicts (goes against) the information in Source 2C
regarding America's involvement in Angola.
(2 x 2) (4)
Using the information in the relevant sources and your own knowledge,
write a paragraph of about EIGHT lines (about 80 words) explaining how
foreign intervention heightened Cold War tensions in Angola between 1974
and 1976.
(8)
[50]
QUESTION 3:
HOW DID WHITE CONSERVATIVE AMERICANS RESIST THE
DESEGREGATION OF CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL IN LITTLE
ROCK?
Study Sources 3A, 3B, 3C and 3D and answer the questions that follow.
3.1
Refer to Source 3A
3.1.1
3.1.2
3.1.3
3.1.4
3.1.5
3.2
Name the Civil Rights Movement who challenged the
‘separate but equal’ doctrine in United States schools.
(1 x 1) (1)
Which clause in the United States constitution violated
segregation in education?
(1 x 2) (2)
Explain how segregation in United States schools violated
the rights of African Americans.
(1 x 2) (2)
Comment on the significance of the United States court
ruling in the case of Brown versus the Board of Education.
(2 x 2) (4)
Name the school that Virgil Blossom decided to integrate.
Refer to Source 3B
3.2.1
Define the term segregation in your own words.
3.2.2 Explain why Governor Faubus’s initial reaction to the request
by the Capital Citizen’s Council, not to desegregate schools in
Little Rock Arkansas, was justified.
3.2.3
3.2.4
3.2.5
3.3
(1 x 1) (1)
(1 x 2) (2)
(2 x 2) (4)
List THREE methods that the Capital Citizen’s Council used
to prevent the desegregation of Central High School.
(3 x 1) (3)
What evidence suggests that Faubus changed his
stance (position) on the desegregation of schools in Little Rock.
(2 x 2) (4)
Identify two of the institutions that forced Faubus to change his
stance on the desegregation of schools in Little Rock.
(2 x 1) (2)
Refer to Source 3C
3.3.1
What evidence in the source suggests that conservative whites
used violence to stop the desegregation of schools in Little Rock? (2 x 1) (2)
3.3.2
Explain why President Eisenhower had to act against conservative
whites who prevented blacks from receiving tuition at Central High
School.
(2 x 2) (4)
3.3.3
According to the source, what order by President Eisenhower,
made it possible for the Little Rock Nine to attend
Central High school?
3.3.4
(1 x 1) (1)
Is the source reliable to an historian studying this period in the history of the
USA?
(2 x 2) (4)
3.4
Study Source 3D
3.4.1
Explain the message being conveyed in the photograph.
(1 x 2) (2)
3.5
Comment on how the information in Source 3C and Source 3D
support each other regarding the desegregation of schools in Little Rock. (2 x 2) (4)
3.6
Using the information in the relevant sources and your own knowledge,
write a paragraph of about EIGHT lines (about 80 words) explaining how
conservative white Americans resisted the desegregation of schools in
Little Rock
(8)
[50]
SECTION B: ESSAY QUESTIONS
Answer at least ONE question and not more than TWO questions from this section.
Your essay should be about THREE pages long.
THE EXTENSION OF THE COLD WAR: CASE STUDY –
VIETNAM
Despite the deployment of troops (soldiers), arms and ammunition the United States of
America failed to prevent the spread of communism in Vietnam.
QUESTION 4:
Critically discuss the validity of this statement with reference to the United States of
America's involvement in the Vietnam War between 1965 and 1975.
[50]
QUESTION 5:
INDEPENDENT AFRICA: COMPARATIVE CASE STUDIES –
THE CONGO AND TANZANIA
Tanzania and the Congo experienced political and economic successes and challenges after
attaining independence.
Do you agree with this statement? Use relevant historical evidence to support your answer.
[50]
QUESTION 6:
CIVIL SOCIETY PROTESTS FROM THE 1950s TO 1970s: BLACK
POWER MOVEMENT
The Black Power Movement was militant, confrontational and assertive in their fight against
discrimination in the USA during the 1960s to 1970s.
Substantiate this statement by referring to the role of BPM during the 1960s and 1970s.
[50]
TOTAL: 150